Cigar tip perforator



061. 11, 1932. I R, T, N 1,882,273

CIGAR TIP PERFORATOR Filed Feb. 17, 1930 ENTOR M BY 5. which is ordinarily Patented Oct. 11, 1932 UITED ATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT T. CAMERON, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE CIGAR TIP PERFORATOR Application filed February 17, 1930. Serial No. 429,115.-

The object of my invention is to provide a device of'exceedingly simple form or construction and yet one which will efficiently provide the desired opening in a cigar tip provided by cutting off a portion of the tip. Sometimes a special clipper is provided for that purpose and sometimes a pocket knife is used.

A device embodying my invention comprises simply a sufliciently sharp spur-like of the spur,

projection on a suitable handle which is thrust endwise into the cigar tip.

y invention consists in whatever is described by or is included within the terms or scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a perforator embodying my invention made as a part of a combination cork screw and bottle opener;

Fig. 2 is a detail view in perspective of the perforator carrying portion of the device, alone;

Fig. 3 is a detail view in side elevation of a different embodiment of my invention.

Referring to the embodiment of my invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a body or handle member, 10, is provided that is formed of a metal plate or strip which at one end has the pointed projection or spur, 11, for penetrating the cigar tip, its free end being sufficient- 1y sharp for ready penetration into the cigar and it lies between similar but opposite extensions, 12, whose free ends reach at least to a plane that passes at right angles to the axis 11, across the point thereof. The inner edges of the project-ions or fingers, 12, are preferably slightly concavely curved to conform to the convex curvature of a cigar tip so that when the cigar tip is thrust upon the spur and between said fingers, the inner edges of the latter will form lateral guides and supports for the cigar tip that prevent it being ruptured or broken from the pressure exerted by the penetration of the cigar tip by the spur. Besides thus safeguarding the cigar from rupture or breakage, the fingers,

l2, constitute guards or protectors against injury from the pointed spur either to the clothes or flesh of the user for while spaced sufiiciently to one side of the spur to permit the cigar tip tobe impaled on the spur, they are sufiiciently' clo'sethereto to prevent contact of objects with the point of the spur that might be torn or injured by such contact.

It will be seen that the formation provid- 6;; ing the spur of the guard fingers, 12, can be formed by mere stamping out operation from suficiently thick sheet metal.

As indicated in Fig. 1, to the handle member, 10, may be pivotally attached a cork 00 screw, 18, and the other end of said member may be given a form-to constitute a bottle opener, 14.

As shown in Fig. 3, the spur and its guards may be at one side of the handle member, 100, 08 the formation being in effect, a notch, 15, cut into one side of the handle member, 100, with opposite edges or sides spaced apart and concavely curved to embrace the cigar tip and the spur or tooth, 16,- lying midway between 7 them. In Fig. 3, the handle member, 100, is shown as a simple bar without cork screw or other attachments.

It will be obvious that the surface of the handle member forms an excellent medium for advertisements which can be stamped or engraved thereon and thus make possible giving the article away or selling it for a nominal price.

What I claim is A cigar tip perforator comprising a handle member, and a pointed spurlying between rigid opposite edges that are spaced sufficiently to receive between them the inserted tip of the cigar and support the inserted cigar tip, said spur and supporting edges being parts of a fiat plate.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

ROBERT T. CAMERON. 

